Genesis 39:16

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So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:12 : 12 Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.
  • Ps 37:32 : 32 Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me. 4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him. 5 One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

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  • Gen 39:6-15
    10 verses
    86%

    6So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

    7Soon after these things, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said,“Come to bed with me.”

    8But he refused, saying to his master’s wife,“Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care.

    9There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

    10Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to go to bed with her.

    11One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

    12She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying,“Come to bed with me!” But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

    13When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

    14she called for her household servants and said to them,“See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to go to bed with me, but I screamed loudly.

    15When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

  • Gen 39:17-20
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    17This is what she said to him:“That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

    18but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.”

    19When his master heard his wife say,“This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.

    20Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

  • Gen 38:18-19
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    18He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

    19She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.

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    17He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”

    18(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.

  • 16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

  • 23When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

  • 36Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

  • Ruth 3:14-15
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    14So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought,“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”

    15Then he said,“Hold out the shawl you are wearing and grip it tightly.” As she held it tightly, he measured out about sixty pounds of barley into the shawl and put it on her shoulders. Then he went into town,

  • 6(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

  • 65and asked Abraham’s servant,“Who is that man walking in the field toward us?”“That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.

  • 15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

  • 15When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

  • 13Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.

  • 4When he gets ready to go to sleep, take careful notice of the place where he lies down. Then go, uncover his legs, and lie down beside him. He will tell you what you should do.”

  • 39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’

  • 14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”